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At first, the Go champion thought the move was rather odd. Then he saw it was wonderful. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA --- At first, Fan Hui thought the move was rather odd. But then he saw its beauty. "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move," he says. "So beautiful." It's a word he keeps repeating. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. The move was the 37th in the second game of thehistori
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Inside the Race to Build the World's Fastest Bitcoin Miner
There's more than one way to make money from recent Bitcoin craze, which has seen the value of the digital currency increase more than six-fold over the past few months. Yes, you can do it the old-fashioned way: buying low and selling high. But for the sophisticated digital-currency investor, there's a whole other world of Bitcoin speculation. You can invest in a Bitcoin mining rig. There's more t
Kill the Password: A String of Characters Won't Protect You
Ethan Hill You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Also in this issue Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us AnymoreThe Patent ProblemHow James Dyson Makes the Ordinary ExtraordinaryYour email. Your bank
How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Questions With Raspberry Pi Inventor Eben Upton
Upton: I've worked with computers for all of my adult life. The vast majority of work I've done hasn't relied on my formal educational background. It's relied on stuff I taught myself when I was a child and an adult. I've got a strong interest in enabling children to do hobbyist activities. "We somehow managed to take playing with computers, which is like playing with LEGO, and turn it into the mo
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. Here's the story of exactly how my hackers created havoc by exploiting Apple and Amazon security flaws. Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers.Pho
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'
I really wasn't expecting the Secret Service.Maybe an email, or a phone call from Apple. Instead, my first indication that something was "wrong" was a real-life visit from the organization best known for protecting the President of the United States of America. They rang the doorbell a few times. It woke me up, and I tried to ignore it. There were always kids playing with the doorbells in our apar
Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train
Twitter is now serving up pages over Google's improved web protocol, making the site a bit speedier in Chrome and (soon) Firefox. Google is hoping that its SPDY protocol, pronounced "speedy," will one day speed up not just Google and Twitter, but the entire web. Twitter has embraced Google's vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it. SPDY
The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
Built by a startup company called Pwnie Express, the PwnPlug is pretty much the last thing you ever want to find on your network -- unless you've hired somebody to put it there. It's a tiny computer that comes preloaded with an arsenal of hacking tools. It can be quickly plugged into any computer network and then used to access it remotely from afar. And it comes with "stealthy decal stickers" — i
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
The Nike+ team — (from left) Trevor Edwards, Michael Tchao, and Stefan Olander — at the company's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Image: Kate Gibb On June 6, 2008, Veronica Noone attached a small sensor to her running shoes and headed out the door. She pressed start on her iPod and began keeping track of every step she took. It wasn't a long run—just 1.67 miles in 18 minutes and 36 seconds, but
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